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To help avoid a public health nightmare should South Africa's "Mother City", Cape Town run out of water by April, there is a plan to organise "community flushes" of toilets to ensure that enough water pours simultaneously through the sewage pipes to stop the blockages that are already causing problems.

If the river Thames burst its banks in London, the results could be devastating, adding another concern to the already economically weakened UK. And there are indications that the great mechanical barrier erected in 1983 may prove inadequate.

Politics stinks. These days in South Africa, this is a fairly common view. But, in the North West province in recent months, the expression has had a very real resonance. Because, especially as summer has begun to dawn, the seats of political power in the province have become decidedly smelly. So much so, that various […]

Gold mine ownership, especially in this day and age, is not for the faint hearted. Nor is it for those without deep pockets or without considerable expertise and experience. And gold remains, potentially, a very volatile commodity since it has little practical use outside of jewellery.

The massive earthquake off the coast of Japan in March triggered a ten-metre tsunami wave that swept up to 10km inland, devastating whole towns and villages. It also smashed into the Fukushima nuclear power plant causing widespread — and still ongoing — concern about the safety of such plants. This tragedy gave anti-nuclear power advocates […]